Fernandes Guitars

As every year, the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) hosted the 2010 Summer NAMM Show in Nashville, June 18th-20th.

Flood relief efforts, music education support were main themes for three-day event. "In addition to some of our industry's largest manufacturers and distributors, Summer NAMM appeals to the new and emerging companies, and there were 70 brand new NAMM exhibitors this year," said Joe Lamond, president and CEO, NAMM. "During the show, the independent dealers, along with the largest buying and marketing groups, were able to see exciting new products to stock in their stores for the fall and holiday selling seasons."

“Fernandes generated quite the buzz at Summer NAMM with the Japan-made Classic Series, the Shin Series and the Limited Edition Spalted Maple Series." stated Jack Thompson, Fernandes and Musical Distributors Group, Sales Manager. "Everyone was talking about the quality and playability of the Revolver Classic. Overall a great time was had by all!"

Fernandes extends a big thank you to Musical Distributors Group, all our dealers, business partners, artists and visitors who made this show a great event.

A Plea For Purging's third album The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell is a follow up to the highly acclaimed sophomore release Depravity. As one of the hardest working and touring bands on the planet, the band will be on this summer's Scream The Prayer tour to support the new album which will include festivals stops at Cornerstone and Sonshine Festival. The band once again recorded with Joey Sturgis at Foundation Recording Studio and the artwork was designed by Dave Quiggle. Once again, this new musical offering features plenty Fernandes firepower courtesy of Revolver and Dragonfly Deluxe guitars, in the hands of guitarmen Blake and Tyler, slamming some trully killer riffs.

More at myspace.com/apleaforpurging

Fernandes welcomes latin metal pioneer Ramon Ortiz to our family of artists, founder of Puerto Rican genre-blending masters PUYA and L.A.'s own ANKLA, as he introduces and shreds on his Sustainer equipped Revolver guitar on his new video clip (in Spanish). After opening for Guns and Roses in Puerto Rico, PUYA is currently working on a new album, and gearing up to play in Latin America's biggest rock festival, Rock Al Parque, to be held in Bogota, Colombia, July 3rd-5th. Also appearing at this Festival, officially sponsored by Fernandes this year, SAMAEL with Mas' thundering Ravelle Bass. More on Rock Al Parque at rockalparque.gov.co.

Visit PUYA and ANKLA's websites for more news on Ramon's proyects: www.puyapr.com / www.myspace.com/ankla1

London based rock/punk/gothic rock influenced band named after the mythological Celtic Goddess of battle fury, formed By Adrian Erlandsson (At The Gates / Cradle Of Filth), and his wife, model Morrigan Hel in 2006, Nemhain's music deals with the darker side of sex, drugs, addiction, passion and revenge, they have also recorded and performed covers of songs by The Distillers, Nirvana, Misfits and The Gits. Their debut album 'From The Ashes' was released on 22 January 2010 on Tiefdruck-Musik. As stated on ther website, "we're proud to say we've quit our straying, deleted all other guitars from our phonebook, changed our number and shacked up with our lovely friends at Fernandes. Sam has been using a hot-rodded Ravelle as his main axe since the first demo, so we have always been keen to work with them. Lakis and Sam will be causing havoc with their Ravelle Deluxes, while Lisa on tour this month underpins the chaos on her Ravelle Bass ", dates at nemhain.com.